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Can Republicans control the extremists on talk radio? Nope
Wayne Laugesen, the Editorial Page Editor at the conservative Colorado Springs Gazette, made the point last week on Rocky Mountain PBS' Colorado State of Mind that the "general public" thinks conservative talk radio "is part of the GOP."
And for good reason. You find the top GOP candidates, like Mitt Romney, holding forth on Denver talk radio, while avoiding TV or print media. As elections get close, you hear talk radio hosts acting as if they are part of that famous well-oiled Republican get-out-the-vote machine. You see GOP leaders say something in Washington, and then you hear it again on KNUS radio in Denver.
And when something outrageous trickles out of the talk radio world and into the headlines, it rapidly becomes linked to conservatives. See Rush Limbaugh. At the local level, see Mike Rosen, Brownie, Steve Kelley, Tom Lucero and Devon Lentz, Amy Oliver, Jeff Crank, the whole gang.
It's pretty obvious that Republicans would like to figure out a miracle way to stop the hatred and extremism on talk radio so they can be better polish up the image of their party, especially among Hispanics.
"The talk on immigration comes out on talk radio anymore as just general hostility toward Latino culture," said Laugesen.
But does anyone really expect conservative talk radio hosts to change their tune anytime soon? No, because if they did, they'd lose their audience, which listens to the shows precisely to hear the extremism they love.
The conservative talk-radio audience has been nurtured to want the extreme talk. That's how the shows built what little audience they have. It worked.
As explained here, they captured a market niche alienated from the reasonable news media. Talk radio listeners like to connect with people who share their fringe views. (This is a generalization, I know, but still.)
How is that going to change anytime soon? It can't, because if conservative talk radio moderates itself, it will die. Its core audience will change the channel.
But there's hope, if you're a Republican like Laugesen. The conservative white, aging, male audience of talk radio is on the way out. But chances are they'll stick around long enough, with their extremism stuck to them, to make it all the more difficult for the GOP to re-invent itself.
Laugesen: A lot of Republicans will say, we're not against Hispanics at all, we're against illegal immigrants. Okay, we get that, but that's not how it comes across. It's not how it comes across on talk radio, which is, right or wrong, is viewed by the general public as part of the GOP, a big part of the GOP. The talk on immigration comes out on talk radio anymore as just general hostility toward Latino culture. So I think that's really hurt Republicans. In 1984 you had Ronald Reagan who actively sought the Hispanic vote, and he got 40 percent of it. Later on in 2004, you had George Bush, who spoke Spanish, and was very good about courting the Hispanic vote got 44 percent. So it was going up. And–
Host Cynthia Hessen: And talk radio kind of talked it away?
Laugesen: Talk radio and a lot of politicians pandering for the white vote, apparently. I don't know what their thinking is. Let's try to be more conservative than the next guy by talking more critically about immigration, illegal immigration.


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Born in Cumbria in 1964, Halliday was brought up on a farm overlooked by the Pennines in rural Cumbria. The surrounding landscape was to have a lasting impression on him. Graduating from Exeter in 1992 with a BA Honours in Fine Art, he pursued his interest in contemporary art in London.
There, he produced a range of work, much of which reflected his concern for the destruction of our environment and was full of messages. However, when a painting he did one day appeared to be a simple seascape and yet he was drawn to it, Halliday realised that he wanted to explore more. Gradually he turned his back on what seemed to him the purely cerebral nature of Contemporary Art and started to paint what was around him in the City of London.
In 2005 a move to Derbyshire put him in a new but essentially rural landscape again. As his relationship with that landscape became more established, Halliday realised the growing importance for him of the "application of paint", and that painting landscapes without reference to people or buildings allows that to predominate adding a timeless quality to the work.
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Wrapper around nona for managing external masks
nona-mask [options] -o output project_file (image files)
Wrapper around nona. Usage is exactly the same as for nona, except that if files named '<prefix>_mask.tif' exist, they are inserted as alpha masks before stitching.
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Riser's Resolve (Men of Mercy #12) by Lindsay Cross An Elle James Brotherhood Protectors Kindle World Novella Cover Design: Kari March Designs Release Date: June 8, 2017 Synopsis
Laney was a woman on the run. Her ex-husband, who just happened to be a cop, had a penchant for violence. After Laney took their daughter and ran, he had a promise for revenge. She'd made a new life with a new name and had planned to stay hidden forever, but even the best laid plans go wrong. Forced to rush her daughter to the hospital, Laney's location is revealed.
Laney had vowed to never seek help from a man again, until Riser's 200 pounds of packed muscle made her his own personal mission. He vowed to protect her and her daughter from her ex, but could she trust him with their lives when she'd been burned so badly in the past? Riser Malone was an admitted adrenaline junkie whose distraction on a crucial mission last year had resulted in complete failure of his objective: protect the girl. Unable to face his failure, Riser accepted every mission put before him, but a lull in the terrorist tempo left him with too much time on his hands back home. He needed a distraction, and he needed it badly. And that distraction showed up in the form of Laney and her daughter. With an abusive ex bearing down on her, Riser saw his second chance at redemption. And after one night with her, Riser knew his bachelorhood was over. But if he ever had any hope for a relationship with Laney in the future, he'd have to make sure her abusive ex-husband would never harm her again. GoodreadsGiveawayOne of Five ARCs of Riser's Resolve Direct Link: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/b1257f8d68/? Join the Brotherhood Protectors Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrotherhoodProtectors/ About the AuthorLindsay Cross is the award-winning author of the Men of Mercy series. She is the fun loving mom of two beautiful daughters and one precocious Great Dane. Lindsay is happily married to the man of her dreams - a soldier and veteran. During one of her husband's deployments from home, writing became her escape and motivation.An avid reader since childhood, reading and writing is in her blood. After years of reading, she discovered her true passion - writing. Her alpha military men are damaged, drop-dead gorgeous and determined to win the heart of the woman of their dreams. Connect with LindsayWebsite: http://www.lindsaycross.com Facebook Author Page: http://bit.ly/294JQQM Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/290ByHr Instagram: http://bit.ly/292V3PR Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bDbFNb Twitter: https://twitter.com/lindsaycross101 Goodreads Author Page: http://bit.ly/294JTwb Amazon Author Page: http://amzn.to/293aMCR BookBub Author Page: http://bit.ly/1T8eczc Leave a Reply. |


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News story originally written on May 29, 1998
Possible planet? Protoplanet? Possibly. Scientists searching through Hubble images of stars in the constellation Taurus may have found what could be the first direct image of a planet outside our solar system. Up to this point, scientists have found a lot of evidence that other planets exist, but we haven't been able to simply take a photo of an extra-solar planet.Susan Tereby of the Extrasolar Research Corporation in Pasadena, California made the discovery of this possible planet while studying a binary star system in Taurus. This possible planet has been given the name TMR-1C. The binary system and TMR-1C lie 450 light years from Earth. The mass of TMR-1C is estimated to be 2-3 times the mass of Jupiter.
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this object is truly a planet and not a brown dwarf," said Dr. Ed Weiler, Director of the Origins Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. "We are sharing this preliminary data with the public at a very early stage in the research process because of its potential importance and because of the compelling nature of the image. If the planet interpretation stands up to the careful scrutiny of future observations, it could turn out to be the most important discovery by Hubble in its 8 year history."


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Mortal Kombat 'Skarlet' DLC due June 21
Mortal Kombat will be getting its Skarlet DLC on June 21 for $5, followed sometime this summer by Kenshi, Rain, and an undisclosed fourth kombatant.
NetherRealms Studios and Warner Bros Interactive has taken the proverbial wraps off of its character downloadable content plans for Mortal Kombat. As previously reported, Skarlet will come first. The blood-thirsty ninja who is literally made of blood will hit the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace on June 21 for $4.99 and 400 MSP, respectively.
That date will also bring a free compatibility pack, letting you fight online against Skarlet even if you haven't downloaded her. The free pack will include "klassic" skins for Cyrax and Sektor, straight from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. NetherRealm Studios boss Ed Boon had previously promised free content with the purchase of the Skarlet DLC.
The trailer teases more DLC characters coming later this summer. The blind warrior Kenshi was previously leaked but is now confirmed. We'll also get the purple ninja Rain, and a mysterious fourth character. Place your bets now, folks.
If each character costs $5 like Skarlet, getting the full set will cost you a solid $20, plus $5 for the recently-released Klassic skins pack. It may be a bit steep, but it will be hard to complain if each of the compatibility packs will include a few free goodies.
Check out Skarlet's story trailer below, which is both completely insane and totally fits the bizarre Mortal Kombat mythos.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Mortal Kombat 'Skarlet' DLC due June 21.
Mortal Kombat will be getting its Skarlet DLC on June 21 for $5, followed sometime this summer by Kenshi, Rain, and an undisclosed fourth kombatant.


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This year SAOA is held in the framework of Latin American Conference for Informatics jointly organized by CLEI and SADIO, that gathers the Latin American community of Informatics and proposes a multidisciplinary approach to problems and practices resulting of the advance of information and communication technologies. Ontological Engineering is a multidisciplinary field that deals with the study of the theories, concepts, methodologies and tools supporting the construction of conceptual models shared among a community in specific domains. In the last years there has been a new interest in ontology application to solve modeling problems in several areas of computer science and information system fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Big Data, Knowledge Management, Semantic Web, Heterogeneous Database Integration, etc. Worldwide, researchers in all these areas recognize the need for a serious commitment with ontologies in order to provide a basis for their work, where ontologies are seen as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that exist in their research fields. Moreover, in recent years many enterprises related to the application of ontologies and semantic technologies have emerged. The Argentine Symposium on Ontologies and their Applications aims at providing a meeting point for researchers from different fields as well as professionals from industry having interest on ontologies. SAOA encourages the submission of original contributions ranging from academic research to industrial and business applications having a significant impact as well as lessons learned and best practices in ontology development.
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History of PSL
PSL entered into its first contract with the Army Ballistics Research Laboratory on May 15, 1946. A group of students working for Anna Gardiner was hastily assembled to process, reduce, and plot film taken during the very first series of V-2 flights at the White Sands Proving Ground (WSPG). Later that year, PSL students began reduction of V-2 telemetry records in the basement of Kent Hall.
PSL staff at WSPG began maintaining, testing, and flying V-2 telemetry systems under a contract with the Navy Research Laboratory. PSL maintained and staffed telemetry stations in the blockhouse and in mobile vans six miles north of the launch site until 1947, when a telemetry house (Parker Station) was built north of the launch site. PSL operated a ground station there until Parker Station was closed in the mid-1990s.
PSL's rocket support expanded to include the Aerobee in 1947. Data from Aerobee launches were reduced by the Ballistic and Telemetry Data Reduction groups. Viking rocket support began in the late 1940s and continued into the mid-1950s. Much of this ground and flight missile support required the development, test, and use of a variety of antennas. To fulfill this need, PSL created an Antenna Section and an Antenna Test Facility in the early 1950s.
PSL provided telemetry and flight test support for a variety of military missiles in the 1950s, which sometimes required production of targets. This resulted in the inception of the Rocket Section in 1953. In 1958, the Satellite Tracking Section (SGI) was formed to track some of the first satellites launched by the U.S. A large number of co-op students were hired to support the world-wide network of satellite tracking stations that were required for this program.
The early 1970s was a time of slowdown for both PSL and the United States as a whole, particularly in the areas of aerospace and defense. The Rocket Section was closed, but other robust contracts sustained PSL through this difficult period. Fortunately, a recovery occurred at the end of that decade.
In the time period between 1970 and the present, PSL's multiple changes included a reduction and eventual demise of the data analysis groups, a gradual decrease in rocket work, and the advent of the Air Force and NASA balloon contracts. In the early 1970s, Ivan Carbine was involved in an effort to bring the Space Shuttle takeoff and landing site to New Mexico. Although this effort failed, the concept was reinitiated in 1990 with Spaceport New Mexico, which resulted in the advent of Reusable Launch Vehicles and the testing of Delta Clipper Experimental (DCX) at WSMR.
By the mid-1970s, PSL had shifted from work strictly involving sounding rockets into satellite fabrication and Space Shuttle support. Satellite flight instrumentation was developed early in the 1970s for two NRL satellites, SOLRAD 10 and 11. Support of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) satellite subsystems began in the 1970s, and Shuttle Get-Away-Special (GAS) and SPARTAN programs in the 1980s.
PSL continued its support of the NASA sounding rocket and Navy missile programs and developed and expanded its Army Electronic Warfare program support, which began with the Army's Missile Electronic Warfare Test Agency. Antenna development and testing continued in support of both the sounding rocket and satellite programs. Telemetry efforts for both large and small systems were initiated and completed during this period. The SGI group continued to function through the mid-1990s, at which time PSL's portion of the tracking system was shut down.
As it enters the 21st century, PSL continues working in traditional programs maintained from its inception, as well as exploring completely new areas of growth.


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Mario Monti, (born March 19, 1943, Varese, Italy), Italian economist, academic, and bureaucrat who served as prime minister of Italy (2011–13).
Monti, the son of a banker, studied economics and management at Bocconi University in Milan and received a degree in 1965. He then pursued graduate studies at Yale University under the tutelage of American economist James Tobin. Monti taught briefly at the University of Trento (1969–70) and began a post at the University of Turin (1970–79) before returning to Bocconi University in 1971 as a professor of monetary theory and policy. He later directed (1985–94) the school's Institute of Economics. In 1989 he became rector of the university, and five years later he was named its president.
As a consultant to one of Italy's largest banks in the 1970s, Monti gained attention for publishing his own estimates of the country's money supply at a time when official figures were not publicly available. Beginning the following decade, he served on several committees of the Italian treasury and was president of SUERF (Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières; now the European Money and Finance Forum) in 1982–85. Also during this time Monti wrote commentaries on economics for the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera (1978–94) and sat on a number of corporate boards.
In 1995 Monti, having been nominated by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, took a seat on the European Commission (EC), for which he oversaw issues relating to the internal market, financial services, and taxation. Receiving a second term in 1999, he became the European commissioner for competition, and in that capacity, he took a tough-minded approach to proposed corporate mergers and antitrust cases that won him wide respect. After his EC tenure concluded in 2004, he helped found Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank with a focus on economic globalization.
In November 2011, in the wake of a public debt crisis in Italy that weakened Berlusconi's grip on power, the politically independent Monti became a leading candidate to assume the country's premiership in a national unity government. (It was hoped that Monti's experience as a technocrat would prove beneficial in the implementation of urgent economic reforms.) On November 9 he was made a lifetime member of the Italian Senate, and four days later, upon Berlusconi's resignation, Pres. Giorgio Napolitano asked Monti to form a government.
Initially serving as both prime minister and finance minister (he held the latter post until July 2012), Monti swiftly persuaded parliament to approve an austerity package that relied heavily on tax increases. In early 2012 a set of measures he introduced in an effort to liberalize the service sector was also passed. Although Italy continued to face economic uncertainty, Monti's decisive leadership was widely judged to have helped the country forestall disaster. As the year continued, he also emerged as a key player in international negotiations aimed at financially stabilizing the entire euro zone.
In December, however, Monti's government lost the support of Berlusconi's People of Freedom (Popolo della Libertà) party during two otherwise successful parliamentary confidence votes. He resigned from office shortly thereafter, remaining in a caretaker role until a new government could be formed. In early elections held in February 2013, Monti led an alliance of centrist political factions, but they failed to win enough parliamentary seats to play a significant role in the ensuing efforts to build a government coalition. After two months of political deadlock, Monti was finally succeeded by Enrico Letta, a Democratic Party (Partito Democratico) leader appointed by Napolitano.


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Situation des femmes Nigeria
This situation statement discusses manifestations of violence against women in Nigeria, as well as addressing cultural and religious beliefs that contribute largely to Nigerian women's situation. It states that some of these beliefs have been practiced for so long that they are embedded in the societal perception almost as legal norms. Sexual assault, rape, forced marriage, widowhood rites, and FGM are discussed in detail, as well as the effects of Shari'a courts and implementation of 'customary' laws. It concludes by stating that educating stakeholders in the society for the protection of women's rights is imperative in combating violence against women in Nigeria. In line with the thoughts of this paper, WiLDAF/FeDDAF-Nigeria has worked on a project to sensitise the judicial and extra judicial stakeholders – i.e. judges, magistrates, lawyers, police officers, traditional rulers, and religious leaders – in parts of Nigeria.


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i've been moving all my media, back ups, docs and music to one server that i can access from any anywhere in the house. it's coming along slowly, but i wanted to have some fast searching on it–and with the new google desktop search it's almost possible, but it can only search the local machine. well, here's the google desktop proxy which will allow you do search a machine with the google desktop search app from another computer.
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Bali has two active volcanoes, Mount Agung and Mount Batur.
Mount Agung or Gunung Agung is a active volcano in Bali. This stratovolcano is the highest point on the island. It dominates the surrounding area influencing the climate. The clouds come from the west and Agung takes their water so that the west is lush and green and the east dry and barren.
Mount Agung or Gunung Agung is a mountain in Bali. This stratovolcano is the highest point on the island. It dominates the surrounding area influencing the climate. The clouds come from the west and Agung takes their water so that the west is lush and green and the east dry and barren.
Gunung Agung last erupted in 1963-64 and is still active, with a large and very deep crater which occasionally belches smoke and ash. From a distance, the mountain appears to be perfectly conical, despite the existence of the large crater.
From the peak of the mountain, it is possible to see the peak of Mount Rinjani on the island of Lombok, although both mountains are frequently covered in cloud.
The 1963 eruption of Agung volcano
After more than 100 years of slumber, Mt. Agung came back to life on February 18, 1963. Loud noises and a cloud rising from the crater were noticed, then the ejection of bombs and blocks.
On February 24, 1963, highly viscous lava flows began to travel down the northern flank of the volcano, reaching a length of 7 km in about 18 to 20 days and an elevation of 510 m above sea level. The flows were about 0.5-0.8 km wide and 30-40 m thick. Rough estimates indicate a total volume of these flows of about 50 million cubic meters.
After that phase, the eruption became more and more explosive, and on March 17, 1963, the paroxysmal sub-Plinian eruption took place, generating a eruptino column of 8-10 km height that collapsed to form devastating pyroclastic flows. These flows reached distances of up to 15 km from the crater following vallezs to the south and east, at speeds of about 60 km/hour. Many villages were destroyed and more than 1000 people lost their lives. Heavy tephra fall occurred in areas west of the volcano, where up to 50-70 cm of ash were deposited.
In May, the south peak of the crater wall collapsed, lowering its height for about 200 meters. The lowest crater wall at present is the upper end of Langon river (2600 m).
Batur is the most active volcano on the popular tourist island of Bali and one of Inondesia's more active ones. During the past centuries, Batur has had a number of small eruptions every few years. Thanks to the scenic beauty of the caldera with its lake and the cone of Batur, it is one of Bali's most popular destinations.
The volcano is located at the center of two concentric calderas NW of Agung volcano. The outer 10 x 13.5 km wide caldera was formed during eruption of the Bali (or Ubud) Ignimbrite about 29,300 years ago and now contains a caldera lake on its SE side, opposite the satellitic cone of 2152-m-high Gunung Abang, the topographic high of the Batur complex.
The inner 6.4 x 9.4 km wide caldera was formed about 20,150 years ago during eruption of the Gunungkawi Ignimbrite. The SE wall of the inner caldera lies beneath Lake Batur; Batur cone has been constructed within the inner caldera to a height above the outer caldera rim. The 1717-m-high Batur stratovolcano has produced vents over much of the inner caldera, but a NE-SW fissure system has localized the Batur I, II, and III craters along the summit ridge.
Historical eruptions have been characterized by mild-to-moderate explosive activity sometimes accompanied by lava emission. Basaltic lava flows from both summit and flank vents have reached the caldera floor and the shores of Lake Batur in historical time.


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NEW YORK (AP) — It was, Alec Baldwin said, "like something out of Hitchcock": He waits in the wings of a Lincoln Center stage before a movie-screening discussion. He looks out to see his tormentor in a front-row seat. She turns to him. And smiles.
That was one of several scenes in a personal drama the "30 Rock" actor described Tuesday, as the star witness against Genevieve Sabourin, a small-time Canadian actress charged with stalking him.
"It was nightmarish," Baldwin said during a morning of testimony that at times approached theater in itself. Sabourin unleashed a stream of outbursts — "He's lying!" for instance — that prompted a judge to warn that he might remove her from court.
Baldwin, at times, came close to playing director, dilating on points he wanted to make, telling Sabourin's lawyer he sounded nervous and musing about having thought of turning Sabourin's voicemail messages into a play.
Baldwin and the Manhattan district attorney's office say it's a case of an acquaintance with a movie star turning into harassment. Sabourin claims it was a romance that fell apart.
Baldwin, 55, said he first encountered Sabourin at a lunch with a mutual friend in 2000 in Montreal, where Baldwin was filming "The Adventures of Pluto Nash." Sabourin, 41, hails from the Montreal suburb of Candiac and has appeared in some Canadian films and TV series.
Ten years later, the friend asked Baldwin for a favor, the actor testified: Would he give some career advice to Sabourin?
So Baldwin and Sabourin met at a New York restaurant in 2010 for what he characterizes as an hour-long chat about her acting prospects and she calls a romantic dinner that ended in a sexual tryst, which Baldwin adamantly denies.
Baldwin says he communicated with her afterward only to convey suggestions about acting classes, but she quickly shifted to professing her love and pleading for his.
She began leaving as many as 30 voicemail messages a night, so many that he eventually disconnected the cellphone number he'd given her. And she sent a raft of emails that grew increasingly ominous in March 2012, when she wrote: "Call the FBI now!" and said she had the address of his Hamptons home, had "easy access" inside his New York apartment building and would insinuate herself into places he worked and yoga classes taught by his then-girlfriend, Hilaria Thomas, now his wife.
Shortly after Baldwin and Thomas got engaged in March 2012, they were sitting in their living room in the Hamptons hamlet of Amagansett, N.Y., when he heard gravel crunch in the driveway. He looked out to see Sabourin getting out of a car, Baldwin testified, his eyes reddening as he recalled the episode. He called police; Sabourin left before they arrived, he said.
The couple felt "extremely, extremely, extremely threatened," he said.
A few days afterward, he said, Sabourin appeared at the Lincoln Center screening — he had security guards escort her out, and Hilaria Baldwin testified that Sabourin ran toward her on the way out the door. Days later, Sabourin appeared outside the couple's Manhattan apartment building and was arrested.
Baldwin said he had repeatedly asked Sabourin to let him alone, and some emails read in court include exhortations to stop. But he also sent her more sympathetic messages along the way, including "I'm sorry you're suffering so" and "happiness is around the corner."
A police detective testified last week that Baldwin described his contacts with Sabourin as strictly professional, but the actor acknowledged Tuesday some communications "were more personal than professional." He said he was "just trying to pacify her" while hoping she'd eventually give up on contacting him.
Baldwin's career has included a Tony-nominated turn as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway, incarnating action hero Jack Ryan in the 1990 film "The Hunt for Red October" and an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in the 2003 drama "The Cooler."
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Less is known about the components of effective mathematics instruction than about the components of effective reading instruction, because research in math is less extensive than in reading. However, conclusions still can be drawn from some very good studies that do exist, as well as from typical grade level expectations in math. As is true for reading, there is no single "best" program for teaching mathematics. Rather, certain key abilities involved in learning math need to be addressed in instruction, with the importance of different abilities shifting somewhat across the elementary and secondary grades.
Effective kindergarten through grade four instruction
At these grade levels, general education instruction in mathematics should include development of the following math-related abilities: concepts and reasoning (e.g., basic number concepts, meaning of operations such as addition, geometric concepts); automatic recall of number facts (e.g., memorization of basic addition facts such as 3 + 4 so that children know answers instantly instead of having to count); computational algorithms (the written procedure or series of steps for solving more complex types of calculation, e.g., for two-digit addition with regrouping, calculation starts in the right-hand column and tens are "carried" from the ones to the tens column); functional math (e.g., practical applications such as time and money); and verbal problem-solving (e.g., solving word problems).
Because progress in math builds heavily upon previously learned skills, it is important for instruction to be clear, unambiguous, and systematic, with key prerequisite skills taught in advance. For instance, children should not be expected to develop automatic recall of addition facts if they do not understand the basic concept of addition or the meaning of the addition sign. It is also essential for children to have sufficient practice to acquire new skills. For example, although manipulatives such as cubes or rods can be very helpful in developing basic concepts, many children will not spontaneously progress from accurately solving facts with manipulatives to automatic recall of facts. Instead, most children benefit from practice activities focused specifically on helping them to memorize facts. Similarly, learning computational algorithms such as those used in long division or two-digit multiplication often requires considerable practice.
Scientific investigators interested in learning disabilities have identified several patterns that may be found in youngsters with math disabilities. Some of these children have difficulties that revolve primarily around automatic recall of facts, coupled with good conceptual abilities in mathematics; this pattern characterizes some children with reading disabilities. Another common pattern involves difficulties with computational algorithms; yet a third pattern involves visual-spatial difficulties, such as difficulty lining up columns or with learning spatial aspects of math, such as geometry. Although effective general education instruction can help to prevent low math achievement in many children, some youngsters with genuine math disabilities will require more intensive, long-term instruction in order to be successful.
Grade five and beyond
In grade five and beyond, general education instruction in math focuses a great deal on advanced concepts and reasoning (e.g., what a variable or a function is), learning of complex computational algorithms (e.g., those involved in adding and subtracting fractions and decimals), and more difficult kinds of verbal problem-solving (e.g., problems with multiple steps). By grade five, automatic recall of number facts is well-developed in most normally-achieving youngsters. However, youngsters with math disabilities often continue to struggle with math skills far below grade expectations, including not only automatic recall, but also many computational algorithms and math concepts. A thorough evaluation that assesses a range of important math skills is essential, because children can have different strengths and weaknesses even within the domain of math, and knowing the pattern of strengths and weaknesses is central to instructional planning. For instance, a child who has good conceptual abilities but whose difficulties center on automatic recall and computation will need a different kind of instructional program than will one whose main difficulties are conceptual in nature.
As children advance into middle and high school, tracking of students into different levels of math (e.g., an accelerated track, a grade-level track, and a remedial track) is typical. Also, science courses begin to draw more heavily on mathematics skills, and students with math disabilities may begin to experience more difficulties in science. Providing intensive remediation of basic math skills to students who need it remains essential in these grades, not only to help students acquire the skills needed for everyday life, but also because math achievement serves as a gateway for higher education and for many occupations.
Examples of sources
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
Carnine, D. (1997). Instructional design in mathematics for students with learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 30, 130-141.
Cawley, J., Parmar, R., Foley, T., Salmon, S., & Roy, S. (2001). Arithmetic performance of students: Implications for standards and programming. Exceptional Children, 67, 311-330.
Fuchs, L., & Fuchs, D. (2001). Principles for the prevention and intervention of mathematics difficulties. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 16, 85-95.
Maccini, P., & Gagnon, J. (2002). Perceptions and application of NCTM Standards by special and general education teachers. Exceptional Children, 68, 325-344.
Other helpful sources:
Curriculum and evaluation standards for school mathematics. (2000). Reston, VA: National Council for Teachers of Mathematics.
Fuchs, L., & Fuchs, D. (2003). Enhancing the mathematical problem solving of students with mathematics disabilities. In H. L. Swanson, K. R. Harris, & S. Graham (Eds.), Handbook of Learning Disabilities (pp. 306-322). New York: Guilford.
Geary, D. C. (1996). Children's mathematical development. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Rivera, D. P. (1998). Mathematics education for students with learning disabilities: Theory to practice. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
Stein, M., Silbert, J., & Carnine, D. (1997). Designing effective mathematics instruction: A direct instruction approach (3rd edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill.
Stevenson, H.W. & Stigler, J.W. (1992). The learning gap. New York, NY: Summit Books.


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RIP Maurice Sendak
May 08, 2012
One of the greats, Maurice Sendak, is now in heaven, or somewhere like it. Probably Brooklyn.
A Hole Is To Dig was my introduction to Sendak. I was very small. It had just been published. Yes, I've loved Sendak all my life. I met him once on an airplane. Thrill.
Ruth Krauss/ Maurice Sendak. A Hole Is To Dig. 1952. found here
Maurice Sendak collaborated with Carole King to produce one of the greatest soundtracks of all time..in my opinion. The Nutshell Kids present Really Rosie. It was the soundtrack of my oldest daughter's early years, in the 1970's. Good times. I can still sing it word for word.


text: Hi, Am 23.12.2009 um 01:35 schrieb Gus Correa: > <snip> > Likewise, browsing through the GA stuff I could find no direct > reference > to OpenMPI, only to MPICH, > although theoretically MPI is supposed to be a standard, > and portable programs ans libraries should work right with any MPI > flavor (in practice I am not so sure this is true). GA can be used with Open MPI. I just did this for Molpro. Side note: Molpro supports now also a pure MPI-2 compilation besides the former via TCGMSG over MPI. The TCGMSG-MPI version is faster than the plain MPI-2 compilation. Okay, one extra step, and you get the time back. -- Reuti


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rw_init(9f) [opensolaris man page]
rwlock(9F) Kernel Functions for Drivers rwlock(9F) NAME
rwlock, rw_init, rw_destroy, rw_enter, rw_exit, rw_tryenter, rw_downgrade, rw_tryupgrade, rw_read_locked - readers/writer lock functions SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/ksynch.h> void rw_init(krwlock_t *rwlp, char *name, krw_type_t type, void *arg); void rw_destroy(krwlock_t *rwlp); void rw_enter(krwlock_t *rwlp, krw_t enter_type); void rw_exit(krwlock_t *rwlp); int rw_tryenter(krwlock_t *rwlp, krw_t enter_type); void rw_downgrade(krwlock_t *rwlp); int rw_tryupgrade(krwlock_t *rwlp); int rw_read_locked(krwlock_t *rwlp); INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI). PARAMETERS
rwlp Pointer to a krwlock_t readers/writer lock. name Descriptive string. This is obsolete and should be NULL. (Non-null strings are legal, but they're a waste of kernel memory.) type Type of readers/writer lock. arg Type-specific argument for initialization function. enter_type One of the values RW_READER or RW_WRITER, indicating whether the lock is to be acquired non-exclusively (RW_READER) or exclu- sively (RW_WRITER). DESCRIPTION
A multiple-readers, single-writer lock is represented by the krwlock_t data type. This type of lock will allow many threads to have simul- taneous read-only access to an object. Only one thread may have write access at any one time. An object which is searched more frequently than it is changed is a good candidate for a readers/writer lock. Readers/writer locks are slightly more expensive than mutex locks, and the advantage of multiple read access may not occur if the lock will only be held for a short time. The rw_init() function initializes a readers/writer lock. It is an error to initialize a lock more than once. The type argument should be set to RW_DRIVER. If the lock is used by the interrupt handler, the type-specific argument, arg, should be the interrupt priority returned from ddi_intr_get_pri(9F) or ddi_intr_get_softint_pri(9F). Note that arg should be the value of the interrupt priority cast by calling the DDI_INTR_PRI macro. If the lock is not used by any interrupt handler, the argument should be NULL. The rw_destroy() function releases any resources that might have been allocated by rw_init(). It should be called before freeing the memory containing the lock. The lock must not be held by any thread when it is destroyed. The rw_enter() function acquires the lock, and blocks if necessary. If enter_type is RW_READER, the caller blocks if there is a writer or a thread attempting to enter for writing. If enter_type is RW_WRITER, the caller blocks if any thread holds the lock. NOTE: It is a programming error for any thread to acquire an rwlock it already holds, even as a reader. Doing so can deadlock the system: if thread R acquires the lock as a reader, then thread W tries to acquire the lock as a writer, W will set write-wanted and block. When R tries to get its second read hold on the lock, it will honor the write-wanted bit and block waiting for W; but W cannot run until R drops the lock. Thus threads R and W deadlock. The rw_exit() function releases the lock and may wake up one or more threads waiting on the lock. The rw_tryenter() function attempts to enter the lock, like rw_enter(), but never blocks. It returns a non-zero value if the lock was suc- cessfully entered, and zero otherwise. A thread which holds the lock exclusively (entered with RW_WRITER), may call rw_downgrade() to convert to holding the lock non-exclusively (as if entered with RW_READER). One or more waiting readers may be unblocked. The rw_tryupgrade() function can be called by a thread which holds the lock for reading to attempt to convert to holding it for writing. This upgrade can only succeed if no other thread is holding the lock and no other thread is blocked waiting to acquire the lock for writ- ing. The rw_read_locked() function returns non-zero if the calling thread holds the lock for read, and zero if the caller holds the lock for write. The caller must hold the lock. The system may panic if rw_read_locked() is called for a lock that isn't held by the caller. RETURN VALUES
0 rw_tryenter() could not obtain the lock without blocking. 0 rw_tryupgrade() was unable to perform the upgrade because of other threads holding or waiting to hold the lock. 0 rw_read_locked() returns 0 if the lock is held by the caller for write. non-zero from rw_read_locked() if the lock is held by the caller for read. non-zero successful return from rw_tryenter() or rw_tryupgrade(). CONTEXT
These functions can be called from user, interrupt, or kernel context, except for rw_init() and rw_destroy(), which can be called from user context only. SEE ALSO
condvar(9F), ddi_intr_alloc(9F), ddi_intr_add_handler(9F), ddi_intr_get_pri(9F), ddi_intr_get_softint_pri(9F), mutex(9F), semaphore(9F) Writing Device Drivers NOTES
Compiling with _LOCKTEST or _MPSTATS defined no longer has any effect. To gather lock statistics, see lockstat(1M). SunOS 5.11 16 Jan 2006 rwlock(9F)


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Psalm 68
The God of Sinai and of the Sanctuary MT Intro For the choir director; with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. A Song |
The Glory of God in His Goodness to Israel | Liturgy for a Festival Celebration in the Temple | A National Song of Triumph | An Epic of Israel's Glory |
68:1-4 | 68:1-3 | 68:1-3 | 68:1-3 | 68:1-2 |
68:3-4 | ||||
68:4 | 68:4 | 68:4 | ||
68:5-6 | 68:5-6 | 68:5-6 | 68:5-6 | 68:5-6 |
68:7-10 | 68:7-10 | 68:7-10 | 68:7-10 | 68:7-8 |
68:9-10 | ||||
68:11-14 | 68:11-14 | 68:11-14 | 68:11-14 | 68:11-12 |
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68:15-18 | 68:15-16 | 68:15-16 | 68:15-16 | 68:15-16 |
68:17-18 | 68:17-20 | 68:17-18 | 68:17-18 | |
68:19-23 | 68:19-20 | 68:19-20 | 68:19 | |
68:20-21 | ||||
68:21-23 | 68:21-23 | 68:21-23 | ||
68:22-23 | ||||
68:24-27 | 68:24-27 | 68:24-27 | 68:24-27 | 68:24-25 |
68:26-27 | ||||
68:28-31 | 68:28-31 | 68:28-31 | 68:28-31 | 68:28-29 |
68:30-31 | ||||
68:32-35 | 68:32-35b | 68:32-35c | 68:32-35c | 68:32-24a |
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68:35c | 68:35d | 68:35d | 68:35d |
READING CYCLE THREE (see "Guide to Good Bible Reading")
This is a study guide commentary which means that you are responsible for your own interpretation of the Bible. Each of us must walk in the light we have. You, the Bible, and the Holy Spirit are priority in interpretation. You must not relinquish this to a commentator.
Read the chapter in one sitting. Identify the subjects (reading cycle #3). Compare your subject divisions with the five translations above. Paragraphing is not inspired, but it is the key to following the original author's intent, which is the heart of interpretation. Every paragraph has one and only one subject.
1. First paragraph
2. Second paragraph
3. Third paragraph
4. Etc.
A. It is difficult to find a unifying theme in this Psalm. It is possibly an anthology of YHWH's acts on Israel's behalf (i.e., Exodus, Conquest, establishment of temple in Jerusalem). The NASB Study Bible (p. 805) calls it "A processional liturgy celebrating the glorious and triumphant rule of Israel's God." If this is correct, this Psalm is similar to Nehemiah 9.
B. Some scholars see this Psalm as a composite with no theme.
1. NRSV, The New Oxford Annotated Bible (p. 728) says, "This is the most difficult of the psalms to interpret, and there is no general agreement either as to its meaning as a whole or in many of its details."
2. The UBS Handbook on Psalms (p. 577) says, "both as to text and meaning this psalm is the most difficult of all psalms to understand and interpret. There is no discernable unity in the composition."
3. The Jewish Study Bible (p. 1353) says, "Its vocabulary includes fifteen words found no where else in the Bible, plus other rare words, adding to the difficulty of interpreting it. Indeed, much of it remains obscure, and many consider it to be the most difficult psalm in the Psalter."
4. One reason for the supposition of composition is the numerous names for Deity (see Special Topic at Ps. 1:1) used.
a. Elohim (BDB 43), Ps. 68:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (twice), 9,10,15,16,17,18,21,24 (twice),26,28,31, 32,34,35 (twice).
b. Yah (BDB 43), Ps. 68:4,18
c. Eloah (BDB 43), Ps. 68:8,28 (singular of Elohim)
d. Adonai (BDB 10), Ps. 68:11,17,19,20,22,32
e. Shaddai (BDB 994), Ps. 68:14 (the name of YHWH for the Patriarchs, cf. Exod. 6:3)
f. El (BDB 42), Ps. 68:19,20 (twice), 35
g. YHWH (BDB 217), Ps. 68:20,26
h. King (BDB 572 II), Ps. 68:24
C. Possible outline by themes.
1. military victory
a. vv. 1-4 (unnamed enemies possibly Wilderness Wanderings, Ps. 68:4b)
b. vv. 11-14 (unnamed kings who invade but are defeated)
c. vv. 19-23 (unnamed enemies)
d. vv. 28-31 (Egypt)
2. covenant focus
a. help the least, Ps. 68:5-6
(1) orphans
(2) widows
(3) poor
(4) lonely
b. abundance, Ps. 68:7-10
c. Sinai, Ps. 68:15-18
3. the temple
a. procession of King and people of Israel to the temple, Ps. 68:24-27
b. all peoples praise God (i.e., theme of Psalms 65-68) who reigns from the sanctuary (i.e., Jerusalem, Zion, Mt. Moriah, temple), Ps. 68:32-35
Therefore, I would guess this Psalm is denoting a military victory with a procession to the temple; date unsure!
1Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate Him flee before Him.
2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.
3But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God;
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
4Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts,
Whose name is the Lord, and exult before Him.
68:1-4 This first strophe has several Qal imperfects which may be used in a jussive sense. The verbs "May. . ." and "Let. . ." are markers of this grammatical form.
1. let God arise — BDB 877, KB 1086, Qal imperfect
2. let His enemies be scattered — BDB 806, KB 918, Qal imperfect
3. let those who hate Him flee before Him — BDB 630, KB 681, Qal imperfect
4. let the wicked perish — BDB 1, KB 2, Qal imperfect
5. let the righteous be glad — BDB 970, KB 1333, Qal imperfect
6. let them exult before God — BDB 763, KB 836, Qal imperfect
7. let them rejoice with gladness — BDB 965, KB 1314, Qal imperfect
▣ Notice the different ways of characterizing God's enemies.
1. enemies, Ps. 68:1a — BDB 33, KB 38, Qal active participle (lit. "those hostile to")
2. "those who hate Him," Ps. 68:1b — BDB 971, KB 1338, Piel participle
3. the wicked, Ps. 68:2c — BDB 957
They are to "be scattered," "flee," "driven away," "melted," "perish," but the righteous will
1. be glad, Ps. 68:3a
2. exult, Ps. 68:3a
3. rejoice with gladness, Ps. 68:3b
4. sing to God, Ps. 68:4a — BDB 1010, KB 1479, Qal imperative
5. sing praises to His name, Ps. 68:4a — BDB 274, KB 273, Piel imperative
6. cast up a highway for Him, Ps. 68:4b — BDB 699, KB 757, Qal imperative
7. exult before Him, Ps. 68:4c — BDB 759, KB 831, Qal imperative
68:1 "Let God (Elohim). . .arise" This could be understood in two senses.
1. arise from His throne so as to act
2. the ark of the covenant being carried into battle before the army of Israel (cf. Num. 10:35)
68:2 Several metaphors of defeat.
1. like smoke evaporating
2. like smoke before a strong wind
3. like wax melting at YHWH's presence (cf. Ps. 97:5; Micah 1:4)
4. perishing (i.e., cause to vanish, BDB 1)
68:4 This verse has four imperatives which denote the actions of the righteous.
1. sing to God — temple activity
2. sing praises to His name — temple activity
3. cast up a highway for Him — royal metaphor of preparation, cf. Isa. 35:6-10; 40:3-4; 57:14; 62:10
4. exult before Him — temple activity
The unifying theme of this Psalm is temple worship (cf. Ps. 68:5,24-27,29,35).
▣ "who rides through the deserts" The concept of YHWH riding on the clouds (cf. Ps. 68:33) is an allusion to Ba'al, the storm god of the Canaanite pantheon who brought rain. Often the titles of pagan gods are attributed to YHWH, who is the only true God (cf. Deut. 33:26; Isa. 19:1).
The MT has "deserts" (BDB 787) but KB 879 suggests "clouds" from Ugaritic root (cf. Ps. 104:3). This fits the context best (cf. NKJV, NRSV, TEV, NJB, JPSOA, REB, cf. Ps. 18:9-15).
The ASV takes the root ערב (BDB 787) as referring to "Arabia" (cf. 2 Chr. 17:11; 21:16; 22:1; 26:7). See Contextual Insights, C. 1.
The LXX takes the root מערב (BDB 591 II) meaning "west."
The Targums, followed by the Peshitta and late King James, has "heaven," cf. Ps. 68:33.
5A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
6God makes a home for the lonely;
He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
68:5-6 Notice the types of persons God acts as advocate on their behalf (i.e., Exod. 22:23).
1. orphans — Exod. 22:22; Deut. 14:29; 24:17; Ps. 146:9; Isa. 1:17; Jer. 7:6; James 1:27
2. widows — Exod. 22:22; Deut. 14:29; 24:17; Ps. 146:9; Isa. 1:17; Jer. 7:6; James 1:27
3. lonely — BDB 402, KB 405, from Arabic "to be alone"
4. poor — Job 31:16-20; Ps. 69:33 (lit. "bondman," BDB 64); YHWH provides for the "needy" (BDB 776) in Ps. 68:10
Notice that in verse 6 there is a distinction between the characteristic, ongoing actions of God
1. makes a home (lit. "causes to dwell") — BDB 442, KB 444, Hiphil participle
2. leads out — BDB 422, KB 425, Hiphil participle
for the poor and needy as contrasted with the permanent dwelling (BDB 1014, KB 1496, Qal perfect) of the stubborn/rebellious who will not change (BDB 710, KB 770, Qal participle) and who will dwell in a "parched land" (BDB 850, only here in the OT, but which is common imagery of the lack of YHWH's presence and a sign of His judgment, cf. Ps. 78:17; 107:34,40).
▣ "the rebellious dwell in a parched land" One wonders if these rebels are the same people referred to in verses 1-2. But the context of verses 5-6 implies they are unfaithful covenant Israelites.
Note that prosperity marks the faithful followers, while lack of rain marks the rebels. This type of theology based on covenant obedience (cf. Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 27-30) is known as "the two ways" (cf. Ps. 68:7-10; Deut. 30:15-20; Psalm 1).
7O God, when You went forth before Your people,
When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.
8The earth quaked;
The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9You shed abroad a plentiful rain, O God;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched.
10Your creatures settled in it;
You provided in Your goodness for the poor, O God.
68:7-10 The emphasis on "the two ways" continues. This strophe seems to merge
1. the Wilderness Wandering Period (i.e., Israel led by YHWH in the cloud, cf. Exod. 13:21; 14:19,24; Ps. 78:14; 105:39) and miraculously provided for (i.e., water, manna, quail)
2. the agricultural abundance of the Promised Land (i.e., the trans-Jordan and Canaan)
68:7 "when You went forth before Your people" This is an idiom of "holy war." The battles were YHWH's victory. He went before His people into battle (cf. Jdgs. 4:14; 2 Sam. 5:24). This was often symbolized as the ark of the covenant being carried by Levites at the head of the army.
▣ "When You marched through the wilderness" This implies the Wilderness Wandering Period (cf. Jdgs. 5:4-5). YHWH protected, guided, provided all Israel needed as they wandered some forty years before entering Canaan because of their unbelief (cf. Numbers 13-14). YHWH was so attentive to Israel during this time that the later rabbis called it "the honeymoon period between YHWH and Israel."
▣ "Selah" See note at Psalm 3:2 and Introduction to Psalms, VII.
68:8 "The earth quaked" This was both a metaphor for YHWH's presence (cf. Joel 2:10; Matt. 27:51) and a literal physical manifestation of His presence (cf. Exod. 19:16-18; Jdgs. 5:4-5).
▣ Notice that "God of Sinai" (i.e., the giving of the law, cf. Exodus 19-20) is parallel with the "God of Israel." The author uses several different names for "God" (see Contextual Insights, B, 4). The uniqueness of Israel was the presence of YHWH (monotheism) and His revelation of Himself through deed, promise, and written revelation (the OT).
68:9 "Your inheritance" This term (BDB 635) could refer to
1. the covenant people (cf. Deut. 32:9; 1 Kgs. 8:51; Joel 3:2; Jer. 10:16)
2. the land of Canaan (cf. Ps. 79:1; Jer. 2:7)
The term "land" (BDB 75, KB 90) is used of all the earth (cf. Exod. 19:5) but especially of Canaan (cf. Lev. 25:23; Deut. 32:43; 2 Chr. 7:20; Isa. 14:2,25; Ezek. 36:5). See Special Topic at Psalm 1:2.
NASB"creatures settled in it"
NKJV"Your congregation dwelt in it"
NRSV"your flock found a dwelling in it"
TEV"your people made their home there"
LXX"your animals live in it"
NJB"Your family found a home"
JPSOA"Your tribe dwells there"
The LXX translated this as "animals," but the feminine (BDB 312) means "a related community" (cf. 2 Sam. 23:13; 1 Chr. 11:15).
11The Lord gives the command;
The women who proclaim the good tidings are a great host:
12"Kings of armies flee, they flee,
And she who remains at home will divide the spoil!"
13When you lie down among the sheepfolds,
You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening gold.
14When the Almighty scattered the kings there,
It was snowing in Zalmon.
68:11-14 This strophe, like Ps. 68:1-4 and 19-23, has a military theme. Because of verses 11b and 12b it may refer to (1) Joshua's conquest of Canaan or (2) an invasion of Canaan/Israel that was defeated.
68:11-12 This refers to the news of the divinely-given victory. The quote of the women who bore the good news is recorded in verse 12. Women rejoicing over a military victory and shouting about God's acts is also recorded in the "Song of Miriam" in Exod. 15:20-21.
NASB, NKJV"she who remains at home"
NRSV, REB"the women at home"
NJB"the fair ones at home"
The MT has "pastures" (BDB 627 II) but all English translations change the root to "women."
1. pastures — נוה
2. women — נצוה
68:13 This verse is understood in several ways.
1. the dove (cf. Ps. 68:13b-c) is a name for YHWH, as is Shaddai (i.e., Almighty) — NJB
2. it is a sarcastic allusion to the fact that some did not go to war (i.e., 13a, TEV; cf. Jdgs. 5:15-16)
3. it is a way of referring to victorious Israel
4. it is part of the spoils of battle (i.e., captured carved/molded treasure, possibly related to the worship of Ishtar, Astarte)
5. a reference to the clothing of the women messengers of verse 11 (Kidner, Tyndale Commentary, p. 259)
6. the war banners of the fleeing enemy (IVP Bible Background Commentary, p. 538)
7. the release of doves was part of the victory celebration (F. F. Bruce, Answers to Questions, pp. 23-24)
▣ "sheepfolds" This word (BDB 1046, KB 1637) is rare. This translation is based on Jdgs. 5:16. A similar word is found in Ezek. 40:43, translated "hooks." It could mean "cooking fire" or "cooking pot" (BDB 1046).
68:14 "the Almighty" See Contextual Insights, B, 4).
NASB, NRSV"there"
NKJV"in it"
The MT has a feminine preposition (BDB 88) which seems to link back to verse 10 (i.e., the place where the community of YHWH's inheritance dwells).
▣ "Zalmon" This is a mountain near Shechem (cf. Jdgs. 9:48). BDB suggests it refers to a mountain east of the Jordan. This is because of the name "Bashan" in Ps. 68:15.
The NJB translates it as "Dark Mountain," because of an Akkadian root related to one of David's men from the tribe Benjamin (cf. 2 Sam. 23:28).
The ABD (p. 1039) adds a third suggestion, that it comes from an Arabic root meaning "light" or "splendor."
The reference to "snowing" is also problematic. It could refer to
1. a divine act during the battle, like the rain of Judges 4-5
2. figurative of sowing a defeated place with salt (cf. Jdgs. 9:45)
3. figurative of he bleached bones of the dead soldiers (IDB, vol. 4, p. 933)
4. a way to designate the historical date of the defeat of the invaders
5. the verb "snow" is a Hiphil jussive in form, therefore, "let it snow on Zalmon" (i.e., a predictive sign of the divine victory)
6. the enemy's weapons lying on the ground abandoned as they fled (NASB Study Bible, p. 806)
15A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
16Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has desired for His abode?
Surely the Lord will dwell there forever.
17The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.
18You have ascended on high, You have led captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even among the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.
68:15-18 This strophe is about Mt. Sinai (i.e., Mt. Horeb) as God's special dwelling place. Other mountains of other nations are jealous (cf. Ps. 68:16).
NJB, LXX"a mountain of God"
NRSV, TEV"O mighty mountain"
JPSOA"O majestic mountain"
REB"a lofty hill"
The Hebrew term Elohim (BDB 43) can be used in an intensive sense (#2c, cf. Job 1:16).
This same mountain is called "a mountain of many peaks" in the next line of poetry. This term (BDB 148, KB 174) is found only here in the OT. It may mean
1. many peaks (i.e., a mountain range)
2. round peak
68:16b,c Usually YHWH"s permanent dwelling place is the ark of the covenant, which came to abide in Jerusalem on Mt. Moriah (cf. Deut. 12:5; Ps. 87:1-2; 132:13-14), but here we are speaking of the Exodus. YHWH manifested Himself on Mt. Sinai/Mt. Horeb (cf. Exodus 19-20), where He gave the law to Moses before there was an ark of the covenant.
▣ "look with envy" This is a personification of the jealous mountains of Bashan. The verb (BDB 952, KB 1280, Piel imperfect) is found only here in the OT. It is used in a similar way in Ecclesiasticus 14:22 ("observe stealthily").
68:17 The imagery of this verse alludes to Deut. 33:2-5, where it denoted YHWH coming to Sinai with His holy angelic entourage (cf. Dan. 7:10; Rev. 5:11).
YHWH used Mt. Sinai as the location to meet Israel in a covenant-making revelation, but He chose Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem as the place for His presence (i.e., the ark of the covenant) to dwell permanently (cf. Ps. 68:16).
▣ "thousands upon thousands" This is a Hebrew construct of BDB 48 and 1041. The second word is found only here in the OT. BDB defines it as "repetition" or "redoubled." The context and parallelism help define the term.
68:18 In context this refers to God
1. going to the top of Mt. Sinai
2. as a military metaphor of tribute paid the victor
Paul quotes this verse in Eph. 4:8, but from a Targum translation that changes "received" to "give." This noticeably alters the meaning of the MT. The Peshitta has
"Thou has blessed men with gifts; but rebellious men shall not dwell before the presence of God."
It is surely possible that the implication of the MT is that God receives the gifts of the nations and redistributes them to His people (see Gleason Archer, Encyclopedia of Bibld Difficulties, pp. 404-405).
The rabbis saw Psalm 68 as related to YHWH giving the law to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They would have interpreted the "received/given" dynamic as referring to the Mosaic Law, but Paul saw it as the new age in Christ. He empowers His church with new revelation (cf. G. B. Caird, The Language and Imagery of the Bible, p. 170).
In the context of verses 15-18, verse 18 must refer to YHWH's "holy war," whereby the enemies of Israel, both in transit (i.e., wilderness wanderings) and the conquest of Canaan, are defeated. This may be an allusion to "the blessings of Moses" in Deuteronomy 33 being extended to the later conquest and habitation of Canaan.
19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden,
The God who is our salvation. Selah.
20God is to us a God of deliverances;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.
21Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy crown of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.
22The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan.
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;
23That your foot may shatter them in blood,
The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies."
68:19-23 Because "Bashan" is mentioned in verse 15 and verse 22, there must be a connection between the military-oriented strophes of verses 11-14 and 19-23. There are several obvious truths.
1. God is with Israel
2. God will deliver them from their enemies.
This strophe uses three names for Deity (see Special Topic at Ps. 1:1).
1. Adonai, Ps. 68:19,20,21
2. El, Ps. 68:19b (twice)
3. YHWH, Ps. 68:20
68:19 "who daily bears our burden" This may denote
1. YHWH's constant presence with Israel
2. Israel's constant need of a savior/salvation/deliverance (spiritually and/or physically, cf. Ps. 65:5)
The truth that YHWH carries His own is found in Ps. 55:22; Isa. 46:4.
68:20-23 These verses emphasize YHWH's deliverance of the Israelite army (some died but most were saved). Their enemies may run but they cannot escape (cf. Ps. 68:22; Amos 9:1-4).
Verse 23 contains idioms of defeat and shame.
1. bathe your feet in blood (cf. Ps. 58:10; common idiom in Canaanite literature used of Ba'al and Anath)
2. dogs eat the dead enemy soldiers (cf. 1 Kgs. 21:19; Jer. 15:3)
68:21 "the hairy crown" This is imagery for a person's scalp (cf. Deut. 32:42). Long hair was an OT symbol of dedication to God (cf. Numbers 6), but here of defeated enemies, possibly referring to their dedication to a pagan god and refusal to acknowledge YHWH.
68:22 "from Bashan" It is difficult to know if "Bashan" (BDB 143, בשׁן) should be
1. linked to verse 15 as a geographical location
2. emended to בתן, a Ugaritic root for "serpent," which would parallel "the depths of the sea"in the next line (NEB, cf. Amos 9:3, where the same parallelism occurs with the Hebrew word for "serpent"). The "depths" are also linked to the Exodus where YHWH split the sea and Pharaoh's elite bodyguard drowned (cf. Exod. 15:5; Neh. 9:11).
24They have seen Your procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
25The singers went on, the musicians after them,
In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.
26Bless God in the congregations,
Even the Lord, you who are of the fountain of Israel.
27There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them,
The princes of Judah in their throng,
The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
68:24-27 This strophe describes a procession to the temple. Possibly the ark, which was taken into battle, is returned.
There are several groups mentioned or implied in the throng.
1. the Israeli king as a representative of YHWH, the true King
2. Levitical singers and musicians
3. maidens with tambourines (cf. Exod. 15:20; Jdgs. 11:34; Jer. 31:4)
4. the thirteen tribes represented by
a. Benjamin
b. Judah
c. Zebulun
d. Naphtali
NASB, NKJV"They have seen"
NRSV"are seen"
TEV"seen by all"
NJB"for all to see"
JPSOA"Men see"
The question is, who sees? Is it the Israelite worshiper or all the opposing nations? The strophe implies Israel but the Psalm as a whole implies "the nations" (cf. Ps. 68:28-31, 32-35).
▣ "procession" The term (BDB 237) is used only here for
1. people of Israel coming to the temple
2. Deity coming to the temple
▣ "my King" The first specific mention of YHWH as King is 1 Sam. 8:4-9.
▣ "sanctuary" This term (BDB 871) is used of
1. places set apart as sacred by God's presence
2. the tabernacle and its courts
3. the temple and its surrounding areas
4. Jerusalem and its hills
68:26 "Bless God" This is a Piel imperative. Israel must praise YHWH for His character and His actions!
▣ "the fountain of Israel" This is a unique phrase. It seems to refer to YHWH's calling of the Patriarchs and His involvement in their barren wives having children. The only oblique possible parallel reference is found in Isa. 48:1.
68:27 There has been much speculation about why only some tribes are mentioned. I think there are three possibilities.
1. they represent the entire Promised Land
a. Judah and Benjamin the south (i.e., Judah)
b. Zebulun and Naphtali the north (i.e., Israel)
2. they represent the wives of Jacob (i.e., source of the 13 tribes)
a. Rachel
(1) Judah
(2) Benjamin
b. Leah — Zebulun
c. Bilhah — Naphtali
d. Zelph — no child listed
3. they represent the smallest tribe to the largest
▣ "the youngest" The MT has "the least of them" (BDB 859 I). This could mean
1. Benjamin the youngest son of Rachel
2. a small tribe, but Israel's first king, Saul, came from it
NASB"in their throng"
NKJV"and their company"
NRSV"in a body"
TEV"with their group"
NJB"in bright-colored robes"
JPSOA"who command them"
The MT has רגמתם (BDB 920), which could refer to
1. רגם — to kill by stoning ("sling," מרגמה, BDB 920)
2. רגמה — heap of stones or crowd of people (BDB 920)
3. רגשׁה — throng (BDB 921)
The NJB emends the word (1) to ברקמתם, "to embroidery" (BDB 140) or (2) "variegated stuff," רקמה (cf. Ps. 45:13b-14a). The UBS Text Project (p. 293) gives "crowd" a "B" rating (some doubt), but it is not specific about the root (i.e., #2 or #3).
28Your God has commanded your strength;
Show Yourself strong, O God, who have acted on our behalf.
29Because of Your temple at Jerusalem
Kings will bring gifts to You.
30Rebuke the beasts in the reeds,
The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.
31Envoys will come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
68:28-31 This strophe is somehow related to YHWH's defeat of Egypt. It is uncertain whether it is the Exodus or a later military invasion.
However, with the defeat comes a wonderful offer to come worship YHWH in Jerusalem (cf. Ps. 68:31; Isa. 19:19-22; 45:14). It is this universal emphasis (cf. Ps. 68:32-35) that links Psalm 65-68.
68:28 The power/strength (BDB 738) is God's and He has displayed it on behalf of His people to attract the nations to Himself.
NET Bible"as you come out of"
The MT has a preposition that could be understood in several ways. It seems to allude to verse 1, where YHWH rises for action on behalf of Israel in battle.
68:30 "rebuke" This is a Qal imperative (BDB 172, KB 199). This term is used of God's judgment of the nations in Ps. 9:5; Isa. 17:13. It seems to be used here of Egypt (cf. Ezek. 29:3; 32:2; possibly Isa. 27:1). She and the nations to the south (i.e., Ethiopia/Cush) are both specifically named in verse 31.
The NET Bible (p. 934) translates it as "war cry."
NASB, NRSV"trampling under foot"
NKJV"Til everyone submits"
TEV"until they all bow down"
NJB"who bow down"
JPSOA"till they come cringing"
The MT has "stamp," "tread," "foul by stamping/treading" (BDB 952, KB 1279, cf. Pro. 25:26). The same root (in an imperative form) means "to humble yourself." Possibly both meanings allude to Ezek. 32:2 or 34:18, where this same verb is used of Egypt being humbled.
▣ "the pieces of silver" Again rare words or textual corruptions have caused the English translations to be uncertain.
The word "pieces," רץ, which BDB suggests means "piece" or "bar").
It is possible to emend it to בצר (BDB 131 I), which means "precious ore" (cf. Job 22:24, cf. NIDOTTE, vol. 1, pp. 699-700), possibly "gold." If so, then a translation of the line of poetry (Ps. 68:30c) would be "bowed down with gold and silver" (i.e., a tribute to YHWH).
REB, LXX"Envoys will come out of Egypt"
NRSV"Let bronze be brought from Egypt"
TEV"Ambassadors will come from Egypt"
NJB"from Egypt nobles will come"
JPSOA"tribute bearers shall come from Egypt"
The UBS Text Project (p. 297) gives "things of bronze" (BDB 365) a "B" rating (some doubt). It occurs only here in the OT. The other translations follow ancient versions and rabbinical speculation.
It is possible to see Ps. 68:30c and Ps. 68:31a,b as referring to tribute brought to God by North African nations (JPSOA).
1. gold
2. silver
3. bronze
▣ "will quickly stretch out her hands to God" This fits the understanding of the previous note. There is no need to emend the verb "run" (BDB 930, KB 1207, Hiphil imperfect) to "stretch out" (NEB) when the MT is an idiom of the same reality.
32Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth,
Sing praises to the Lord, Selah.
33To Him who rides upon the highest heavens, which are from ancient times;
Behold, He speaks forth with His voice, a mighty voice.
34Ascribe strength to God;
His majesty is over Israel
And His strength is in the skies.
35O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary.
The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people.
Blessed be God!
68:32-35 This strophe reinforces the universal worship of YHWH in Jerusalem alluded to in verse 31.
Notice the imperatives.
1. sing to God — BDB 1010, KB 1479, Qal imperative
2. sing praises to the Lord — BDB 274, KB 273, Piel imperative
3. ascribe strength to God — BDB 678, KB 733, Qal imperative, cf. Ps. 29:1-2; 1 Chr. 16:28-29
YHWH is described as
1. who rides upon the brightest heavens (i.e., on the storm clouds)
2. who speaks forth with a mighty voice (i.e., thunder, cf. Isa. 30:30; Rev. 11:19; 14:2; 16:17-18)
3. majesty is over Israel
4. strength is in the skies
5. awesome from the temple
6. gives strength and power to His people
7. is blessed by them
68:33a This imagery goes back to Deut. 33:26 and is alluded to in Ps. 18:10, also note Ps. 68:4b.
The "highest heavens" denotes the clouds of earth (cf. Ps. 68:34c), not the dwelling place of God.
His mighty voice is an allusion to creation by the spoken word in Genesis 1.
69:35 "awesome" This description goes back to Deut. 7:21; 10:17, also note Ps. 47:2 and 66:5. It refers to YHWH's holy character and deeds of covenant deliverance.
▣ "gives strength and power to the people" This may be another allusion to
1. the Exodus
2. the Wilderness Wanderings
3. the Conquest of Canaan
4. His ongoing presence with Israel
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With the recent rise of trusted operating systems beyond just the ranks of the military and banks I think this could be a valuable forum as well, it will likely be slow at first but as people become more aware it will grow.
In the last few years there has been an explosion of labeled security systems from SELinux using flask and Argus' Pitbull and Pitbull LX with DBAC to HP's Virtual Vault and Trusted Linux. The release of TRIX's pseudo code and even TrustedBSD's MAC implamentation crossing over to FBSD 5.x. AITS and Argus are even added labeled security and structured domains to NT5. There is even a TOS that runs on the dreamcast and another for the PS2 in the works.
Again a good conceptual understanding of the Bell-LaPadula model is required for any CISSP as well.
(I got flamed for mention these and OBSD being no more secure than Mandrake Linux according to the TCSEC and ITSEC so I figured perhaps a forum on the subject might be nice. heh)


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Family Features
By Kayla Koslosky, Crosswalk.com
Editor's Note: Crosswalk's Singles Advice is a weekly advice column for singles featuring an anonymous question from a Crosswalk.com reader with a thoughtful, biblical reply from one of our single editors.
Hi, I am a 32-year-old single Christian. I struggle with depression, loneliness, and anxiety. Everyone in my church is married or in a relationship. I did believe that I would get married eventually but now I see that I am losing my hope somehow and thinking I may never ever get married. I am not sure how to deal with this.
Hello, and thanks for reaching out with this question!
The conclusion you have reached is one I used to wonder about myself. So first, let me start by saying: you are not alone. Dreaming of having a family and partner to share your life with is normal. And, thinking you're the only one who doesn't have that can sometimes feel impossible. It's not. You can get through this. Let's look at four simple steps toward strength and hope:
1. Listen for God's plan through prayer.
First, I want to recommend prayer to you. Have you talked to God about the desires of your heart? Have you asked him what his plan is for you? This step, which is seemingly simple, is incredibly important and often overlooked.
I was once told that if I am afraid that I am called to singleness, the likelihood is I am probably not. Now, of course, I cannot know if you are called to singleness, only you and God can, that is why it is imperative that you pray.
The best first step I can suggest to you is to lift up a heartfelt request to God. Seriously – and frequently if you so desire – ask God: "What is your will for me? Show me." Once you have lifted this request up to God, listen in faith for the answer God has for you. Look for his presence.
2. Have faith in God's will.
Instead of fearing that you are destined to be single, have faith that if it is God's will, he will provide you with the right man in his perfect timing.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, "He has made everything beautiful in its time."
I think it is really important to distinguish between being called to singleness and allowing unbelief to tell you that you are not going to get married. When you have a lack of trust and belief that God will give you a husband, your unbelief projects onto you and into your life and you may be tempted to listen to unbelief instead of God. In this way, we tend to block God's will from being done in our lives.
In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus heals a boy who is possessed by a demon. Before Jesus healed him, however, his disciples tried and failed to rebuke the demon to the boy. When they asked Jesus why they could not rebuke the demon as he had, Jesus said, "Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
God responds to your faith, even if it is only as small as a mustard seed. If it is truly your calling on your life, you must have faith that God will provide a husband in his perfect timing.
If it is indeed the calling on your life to be single, I encourage you to remember being alone does not have to mean being lonely. Paul called singleness a gift, not a punishment.
Paul said, "Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways!" 1 Corinthians 7:7. In the next verse he says, "God gives the gift of the single life to some, the gift of the married life to others."
3. Seek wise counsel and new experiences.
Again, I encourage you to search your heart and really hear what God has in store for you.
In regard to feeling depressed and anxious, I am a big proponent for Christian counseling. If this is something available to you, I strongly encourage you to speak with someone about how you are feeling. There is no shame in needing help.
We live in a broken world, and in fact we are all broken people, so talking to someone about your feelings really exemplifies how strong you are. If counseling is not an option, seek counsel from supportive members of your church and family.
To combat loneliness, try out a new activity, join a gym, become a regular at a coffee shop, even think about taking adult education classes like painting or cheese-making.
4. Lean into scriptural truths.
I want to leave you with some scripture verses that have lent me some clarity on this topic:
"May He give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed." Psalm 20:4
"If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord." James 1:5-7
"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." Mark 11:24
Kayla Koslosky loves her faith journey as a Christian single and is the News Editor for ChristianHeadlines.com. Kayla has worked as a mentor for college leaders offering them advice and assistance throughout their leadership journeys, led a women's Bible study, and wrote an advice column for her college's Yellow Jacket Newspaper.
Disclaimer: any single editor replying to reader questions through this advice column is a Christian seeking God's direction through his Word. We are not trained psychologists or licensed professionals. As we explore issues with you, we will seek God's guidance through prayer and the Bible.


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John Dear is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, and the author of more than 20 books, most recently, A Persistent Peace, Put Down Your Sword, Transfiguration, You Will Be My Witnesses, Living Peace, The Questions of Jesus and Mohandas Gandhi.
He has served as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and after 9/11, as a coordinator of chaplains for the Red Cross at the New York Family Assistance Center. From 2002-2004, he served as pastor of four churches in New Mexico. He has traveled the war zones of the world, been arrested 75 times for peace, and given thousands of lectures on peace across the country. He lives in New Mexico, and was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. For information about his books, articles and speaking schedule, see: www.fatherjohndear.org


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In 1919, the psychoanalyst Viktor Tausk published his famous paper "On the Origin of the 'Influencing Machine' in Schizophrenia", in which he wrote about patients who believed they were under the control of malign technology beyond their understanding. Sometimes, they claimed, this technology would cause "erections and seminal emissions that are intended to deprive the patient of his male potency and weaken him". In typical Viennese fashion, Tausk concluded that "the influencing apparatus is a representation of the patient's genitalia projected to the outer world . . . a machine independent of the aims of the ego and subordinated to the foreign will".
Right away, we might be reminded of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, in which Tyrone Slothrop may or may not have been secretly conditioned to get an erection every time a V-2 rocket is about to strike London. Yet to find more patients for Tausk, we don't need to look to fiction. "At first I believed they could only terminate my erection, but recently I also started believing that they could create my erection," writes the author of a recent blog about electromagnetic persecution by the government. "Often I am given erections in co-ordination with the brain butchery, and occasionally voided of semen," writes another in the same field.
Both these bloggers are part of an online community centred on a phenomenon called gang stalking. Gang stalking, according to one website:
. . is a covert investigation that is opened on an individual. The individual is then placed under overt and covert forms of surveillance. The person is followed around 24/7. Foot patrols and vehicle patrols are used to follow the individual around, as part of the monitoring process . . . The secondary goals seem to be to make the target homeless, jobless, give them a breakdown, and the primary goal seems to be to drive the target to forced suicide.
Gang stalking has been linked with, but doesn't necessarily involve, remote mind control. No one has ever come forward as a perpetrator. But large numbers of people have come forward as victims.
Before the internet, if you had developed the belief that you'd been targeted in this way, you would have been isolated. Anyone hearing your story – whether a friend or a relation, or a doctor such as Tausk – would have tried to persuade you that you were suffering from paranoid delusions. But today you would find confirmation of your suspicions on dozens of websites, blogs and message boards. "When you read the methods used by gang stalkers to harass their victims," writes one blogger, "it is helpful to know that the stories told by victims worldwide are remarkably consistent."
You would also find information on developments similar to gang stalking that have been documented in the respectable media, such as a declassified Pentagon report on the "Bioeffects of selected non-lethal weapons" or Ealing Council signing up eight-year-olds as "Junior Streetwatchers". You could even make some friends. In other words, you'd be part of a community – and, as the British psychiatrist Vaughan Bell points out in his paper "'Mind control' experiences on the internet", the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual stipulates that a belief cannot be classed as a delusion if it is "accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture".
Reading about gang stalking online can be dispiriting, because one has the sense that someone such as Tausk really ought to be intervening. But I confess I also find it addictive. For instance, consider one blogger who believes even birds and animals are his enemies:
Birds, pigeons and crows, that can be controlled to fly (screaming) over me, to land in my garden when I walk into my kitchen and look outside, to crash into my kitchen window and car front window while driving. Birds, pigeons, that come sit, walk, on the roof of my house when I am upstairs having sex. Cats walking by like being programmed. Barking of dogs, flying away ducks etc, not by mind control but by beaming these animals with laser beams (directed energy weapons).
An entire menagerie of animal spies – if that isn't in Pynchon, it should be. One might also recall Kafka or Don DeLillo, not to mention Mark Lombardi, the American artist whose work consisted of diagrams of various conspiracies involving the Vatican or the World Finance Corporation.
On another website, I found a collection of photographs of household objects – folding chairs, velcro straps, long underwear – that their owner believes to have been damaged during secret incursions into his home. The pictures have such eerie power that you could easily imagine them on a gallery wall next to a William Eggleston or a Laura Letin – sky. Elsewhere, the idea of harassment through the "everyday stimuli" of "red, white, yellow, strips, pens clicking, key jangling, loud coughing, loud whistling, loud smacking of clapping of hands together, cell phones, laptops, etc" evokes Sartre's metaphysical nausea.
Still other online writers veer towards the psychedelic visions of Philip K Dick, proposing that the gang stalkers are really "lower astral entities, some aliens/non-humans, and Neg entities in general [who] are known to feed on the energies created by lower frequency emotions, since that's what they resonate with, farming us for them in the same way we farm animals for their meat, milk, eggs and parts", or, alternatively, normal humans wearing "frequency suits", which "are invisible to the naked eye, but they seem to transport either your etheric layer, or another such layer from place to place".
This is dangerous territory, however. Yes, there are precedents for appreciating the special energies we find in work by people who deviate from the psychological norm, going back to Hans Prinzhorn's book Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922). After reading it, the painter Paul Klee wrote: "In our own time, worlds have opened up which not everybody can see into, although they too are part of nature. Perhaps it's really true that only children, madmen and savages see into them" – a remark the open-mindedness of which is not quite enough to outweigh its condescension. At Lausanne's Collection de l'Art Brut and London's Bethlem Royal Hospital there are whole museums devoted to such art.
None of the people describing their gang stalking experiences on the internet think of themselves as making art, however. They are serious. They want their writing and photography to be taken seriously. In most cases it is harmless to aestheticise modes of expression that are not deliberately aesthetic, otherwise there could be no such thing as Pieces of Intelligence: the Existential Poetry of Donald H Rumsfeld. (And there are grey areas: although Henry Darger's The Story of the Vivian Girls, one of the cornerstones of the very idea of outsider art, was certainly intended as a creative work, there is no reason to think it was ever intended for public consumption.)
But human misery is different. A comparison here might be what's sometimes called "ruin porn". I can spend hours looking at beautiful photographs of derelict houses in Detroit or condemned council estates in London, but at the back of my mind I feel guilty about it, because I'm aware that these aren't just evocative scenery, they're also places where people less fortunate than me actually had to sleep every night. Gang stalking websites, similarly, are the ruins of people's lives and I shouldn't be cruising them for ephemeral thrills. I feel the same way about a lot of amateur YouTube videos that go viral: some of those "zany characters" wouldn't be behaving like that on camera if the US had a functional mental health-care system. This is what the philosopher Mark Reinhardt, in his essay on the idea of "beautiful suffering", calls "a kind of morally obtuse obscuring or exploitation of pain".
Gang stalking is more resonant than these other examples, because here we find ourselves counterpoising two different methods of making sense of the inferno in which we all live. To compare notes on gang stalking with like-minded strangers on the internet is to take part in an investigation, almost a forensic science, a project to expose what Pynchon calls "other orders below the visible", instead of merely sitting in your house with the blinds closed because you're worried that everyone is out to get you. And to appreciate the artefacts of this subculture on an aesthetic level is not only to look sidelong at despair: it is also to play on sensibilities that were first sharpened in us by the work of Pynchon, DeLillo, Dick and so on: writers who were themselves trying to confront a world so large, so secretive, so random, so pitiless that not much human feeling can survive in it.
These two postures differ in the important respect that one comes from a state of abjection and the other from one of literary privilege. All the same, they are both ways of coming to terms with life. I would like to say that in future I'll spend less time on gang stalking websites, but my own work is so derivative of the aforementioned authors in its preoccupation with conspiracies that I will inevitably find myself going back to these sources to forage for inspiration. Then I will launder them in my work like dirty money. Perhaps the challenge, then, is to prove that an aesthetic attitude and an empathetic one need not be mutually exclusive – that even if I'm planning a novel about remote-control spy-ducks, I can forage and feel at the same time.
Ned Beauman's latest novel is "The Teleportation Accident" (Sceptre, £8.99)


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